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Course listings in History and Classical Studies include regular offerings in Modern Greek language, history, literature and culture.
Depending on the type of course, credits earned in Modern Greek may also be counted as:
- Civilization credits towards degree option in Classical Studies
- History electives towards degree option in History. - Courses
- Fellowships
- Students and Alumni
- Teaching Greek
Course Offerings
The following courses are also admissible when the topic is relevant to Greece in its Balkan, European, or Mediterranean context:
Fellowships
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The Greek Grand Tour Summer Fellowship
The proposed fellowship ($1200 in 2015) contributes to the travel and living expenses for an outstanding graduating student with a Neo-Hellenic studies minor in order to live a Grand Tour experience in Greece during the summer, following graduation from McGill, and to report on it. -
Stavros Niarchos Foundation Fellowship
Qualified students pursuing or willing to pursue graduate studies at McGill University can apply for the Stavros S. Niarchos Foundation Fellowships. -
The Schull Yang International Experience Awards
The Schull Yang International Experience Award, supported by Joseph Schull (BA ‘82, MA ’85) and Anna Yang (BCL, LLB ’88), helps students gain first hand international experience related to their fields of study. The award is meant to provide partial funding to assist students with travel and other expenses related to their international experience. The Schull Yang International Experience Award is part of the McGill International Experience Awards initiative. For more information, clickhere.
Award value: $1,500 CAN
Eligibility Criteria
- Must be accepted to the McGill Summer Studies in Greece (MSSG).
- Must be a full-time undergraduate McGill student, B.A., B.A. & Sc.
- Must be returning to McGill in fall 2018.
- Must have a minimum CGPA of 3.0.
Application Requirements
- Letter of intent highlighting how the international activity is related to your studies, what you will gain from this opportunity, and how the award will impact you (max. 350 words).
- An updated curriculum vitae (1-2 pages).
- Copy of unofficial McGill transcript.
Student must submit electronic applications by email to ion [at] mcgill.ca. Applications should consist of 1 PDF or Word document. Please use the following file-name format: firstname.lastname_ssgreece (ex.: james.mcgill_ssgreece.pdf). Only applications received from students’ official email account will be considered.
Application deadline
Monday, April 16, 2018, 12PM (noon) (EST) – Late applications will not be accepted
Students and Alumni
2013
- Watch Ariana Collas (B.A. 2013, Political Science/Minor in Neo-Hellenic Studies) explain why she took Modern Greek at McGill.
2014
- See what Dimitrios Tomaras (B.A. 2014, Economics/Minor in Neo-Hellenic Studies) did with his 2014 Greek Grand Tour Summer Fellowship. After graduating, Dimitris went on to a Master's in Health Economics at McGill.
- Neo-Hellenic Studies minor student, Katerina Patouri, wins in 2014 the Guy Ouellette Chomedey-Laval MNA scholarship from the Hellenic Scholarships Foundation of Montreal.
2015
- Katerina Kostopoulos, the 2015 'Greek Grand Tour Summer Fellowship' recipient and McGill Graduate (B.A. 2015 Political Science, Double minor in Philosophy and Neo-Hellenic Studies), created a blog on her Grand Tour experience! After graduating from McGill, Katerina went on to pursue a law degree at the Université de Montréal.
2016
- Nathalie Defne Ghier was the recipient of the 2016 Greek Grand Tour Summer Fellowship. Read about Defne's experience in Greece on her blog. Defne went on to pursue graduate studies at Oxford, where she completed a Master's in Late Antiquity and Byzantine Studies.
Teaching Greek
Teaching Greek Language and Culture Option
within the Bachelor of Education
Teaching English as a Second Language (B.Ed. TESL)
Elementary & Secondary
In the fall of 2016, McGill’s Faculty of Education will launch the first comprehensive degree in North America to prepare Greek language teachers for elementary and secondary schools. Through the 4 year B.Ed. TESL Elementary & Secondary Program – Teaching Greek Language and Culture Option, students will combine studies in education with studies in Greek language and culture to become teachers of both English and Greek as a Second Language.
The B.Ed TESL program includes studies in language and language learning from linguistic, literary, social, cultural, philosophical, political, and psychological perspectives, accompanied by a minimum of 700 hours of supervised field experiences in schools. The NEW Option includes studies in Greek Language and Culture from History and Classical Studies, Art History, Philosophy and Political Science, and offers field experiences in Hellenic schools.
Montreal is a natural fit for this fresh initiative! Its vibrant Greek community and full-program day schools within the Socrates School network teach Greek as well as French and English. This new program option will bolster the efforts of McGill’s Phrixos B. Papachristidis Chair, which was established in 1988 in memory of the late Montreal shipping industrialist for whom it is named. The Chair aims to maintain Greek language and culture as a shared tradition among diaspora and to further the study of Modern Greek and Greek-Canadian relations. We are thrilled to add the preparation of Greek language teachers to these efforts.
For more information visit B.Ed. TESL/Teaching Greek Language and Culture Option/Concentration.
